(216 quotes found)
“Never insult anyone by accident.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.”
E. E. Cummings
“Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal”
Nancy Cartwright
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.”
Pierre Corneille
“Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone”
Arab Proverb
“The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”
William Hazlitt
“When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
Lord Chesterfield
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be”
“An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
